Sabine Berger, the spokeswoman for the European Union's energy commissioner, announced this at a press briefing in Brussels (Belgium) in response to a question from Ukrainian News about the relevant proposals that Prime Minister Arsenii Yatseniuk made in a letter to the European Commission and EU leaders. ...
Besides, armed activists of Donetsk people's republic rushed into the constituency election commission in Kramatorsk and took away the seal and the voters' lists. ...
This new financing will be reinforced by technical assistance and policy dialogue to help drive forward the essential structural and macroeconomic reforms. ...
Deadliest raid in weeks of fighting leaves at least 11 soldiers dead days before presidential election At least 11 Ukrainian troops have been killed and about 30 others wounded in an attack by pro-Russia insurgents on a military checkpoint, the deadliest raid in weeks of fighting in eastern Ukraine. The attack came three days before the country's presidential vote. AP journalists saw 11 bodies scattered...
Foreign ministry says future monarch's use of media to spread propaganda against Russia is unacceptable and low Prince Charles compares Vladimir Putin with Adolf Hitler Russia has accused Prince Charles of making outrageous and low remarks in comparing Vladimir Putin with Adolf Hitler, as the fallout from the comments threatens to descend into a diplomatic row. Continue reading... ...
A Russian foreign ministry spokesman says comments by Price Charles which compared Russia to Nazi Germany reflect badly on the future of the British monarchy. Alexander Lukashevich says the remarks are being used to spread anti-Russian propaganda during the crisis between it and Ukraine. Russia has sent an official note the Britain demanding an explanation Continue reading... ...
Pro-Russia forces believed to be behind raid on checkpoint in eastern Ukraine, amid signs of division among rebels The conflict between pro-Ukraine and separatist forces in the east of Ukraine led to one of its bloodiest days yet on Thursday, days before presidential elections due to take place on Sunday. At least 11 pro-Ukraine forces were killed in a surprise dawn attack on a Ukrainian army checkpoint,...
"The questioning technique will be the same as in our previous exit polls. At the moment we have the same wide geography and the same representational coverage as we usually offer television channels. This is 20,000 respondents who will be polled at 610 ballot stations," said Vinoslavska ...
It says Ukraine and the Russian Federation are parties to the Treaty on Open Skies, which envisages certain measures aimed at elevating stability, transparency, and reducing the threat of emergence of conflicts. ...
The source says some 200 Dnipropetrovsk EuroMaidan activists, Right Sector party, Svoboda All-Ukrainian Association, and Afghan war veterans on Wednesday were picketing the Region police department with the demand of Goguadze's resignation since he had been appointed without approval of members of the public and representatives of political parties, and also because the cases on beating of Dnipropetrovsk...
"Outside the town of Volnovakha, Donetsk Region terrorists archly, from an ambush opened fire from shooting weapons, hand-held anti-tank grenade launchers and mortar launchers at the roadblock, where servicemen of a military unit of the Ukrainian Armed Forces were soldiering," it said. ...
Labour MP Mike Gapes calls for prince to 'abdicate and stand for election' if he wants to make controversial statements Prince Charles is facing a call for his abdication and a frosty response in Moscow after reportedly comparing Vladimir Putin to Adolf Hitler over Russia's annexation of Crimea. Charles blundered into the international crisis over Russia's actions in Ukraine during a tour of Canada,...
The timing of the prince's comments apparently likening Putin to Hitler couldn't be worse, ahead of Ukraine's presidential elections on Sunday There are times, and this is one of them, when the Prince of Wales seems to have made the transition from heir to the throne to flaky elder statesman without actually stopping to do the job to which he was born. His conversation in Canada with a former Polish...
Blogger working as freelance for Russia Today TV station tweets that he is 'free and fine' following detention on Tuesday A British journalist working for the TV channel Russia Today, who had not been seen since his detention by the Ukrainian government on Tuesday, has said he is "free and fine" after being released. Graham Phillips, a blogger hired on a freelance basis by the Kremlin-funded...
Sergei Loznitsa's documentary about the anti-government protests that forced out Ukraine's president is a vital and urgent film even if his rigorous method doesn't help to convey the broader picture The Cannes film festival could hardly be more topical than by programming this documentary about the anti-government protests in Ukraine that climaxed earlier this year with the ousting of the country's...
Discovery of oil and natural gas deposits in the Mediterranean highlights the growing importance the US has given to the region US vice-president Joe Biden arrived in Cyprus on Wednesday, the most senior US official to visit in more than 50 years, as the quest to find alternative energy routes into Europe focused international attention on the continent's only divided country. With the discovery of...
Heir to British throne compares Russian leader to Nazi dictator in 'private' remark that stirs up storms from Halifax to Moscow It was, said Marianne Ferguson, "just a little remark. I didn't think it was going to make such a big uproar." But after the Prince of Wales told the 78-year-old during a royal visit to Canada that he thought Vladimir Putin was behaving like Adolf Hitler Downing...
For the west of Ukraine, they forecast partly cloudy weather, light intermittent rain in places, storms in places, east wind of 3-8 m/s. Air temperature at night 8... 14 degrees, in the daytime 21... 26 degrees, reaching 28 degrees in Zakarpattia. ...
In particular, the operations of seven of the 22 district election commissions in the Donetsk region were being blocked as of 13:00 on Wednesday: the districts Nos. 42 and 45 (Donetsk), the district No. 48 (Kramatorsk), the districts Nos. 51 and 52 (Horlivka), the district No. 53 (Yenakievo), and the district No. 54 (Torez). ...
"I believe that the Donetsk People's Republic are deceiving the people of Donbass. They are imposters who have taken the entire Donbass hostage and are terrorising it. Who are they? What are those people? Where did those "geniuses" come from? What were they yesterday? They have not created a single job," he said. ...